TV Week: TV to Treat Obamas ‘Like Royalty’ for Ratings Bonanza
Posted on November 26, 2008
-By Warner Todd Huston
Are you looking for hard hitting, serious journalism? Don’t turn to the syndicated “newsmagazines” like Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, or The Insider (not that anyone ever did, of course). They are apparently admitting right up front that they have every intention of pumping up the Obama mythos by treating him “like royalty.”
TV Week is reporting that all the so-called “newsmagazines” (a misnomer for sure as tabloid spectacles are more to the truth of the matter) are going to try and fuel a ratings bump by promulgating Obamalot in a direct emulation of JFK’s mythical “Camelot” years in office — which in itself was another self-perpetuated media myth.
It’s a symbiosis in which shows such as “Access Hollywood” and “Entertainment Tonight” cover the Obama family like royalty, bringing back a Camelot mythology to the White House. In return, they are enjoying a ratings bump with unexpected staying power.
Admitting it up front, bald faced like this is all the more galling for its sycophancy for The One. But, worse, it shows the willingness to obscure reality and present a gauzy fairy-tale story to mislead the American public.
But why would politics change the downward fortunes of the ratings for these inaptly named “newsmagazine” TV shows?
Growing interest and coverage of the Obamas may reverse a ratings trend in the newsmagazines, as the genre, along with the rest of syndication, is down year-to-year. If viewers continue to tune in to learn about the Obamas, it might transform the president-elect into the standard go-to subject of newsmagazines, like Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan.
Based on the latest ratings these TV bubblegum shows imagine that Obamalot will be a continuing ratings booster into the future. Perhaps they are right. If so, so much the shame for it.
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The media’s love of Obama is disgusting. I’ve heard it said that adoration is the state furthest from understanding, and what we have here is the blind leading the blind. The adoring media gather the adoring and uneducated public and those of us who see through Chairman O are being dismissed as crazy. I have no doubt that all the mistakes he’s going to make, which is going to be plenty of them, are going to be ignored, swept under the carpet, and forgotten about by the general public. He will not be called on any of his malfeasance and people like us will slowly be silenced to ensure he is not ousted. This is only compounded by the fact that they can’t find a reason to impeach President Bush, which they want to do so bad, but the investigative journalism is only one way, and we’re going to see this even more plainly as the Obamunist regime takes office.